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  The Bastard of Istanbul (Viking) (Paperback) By (author) Elif Shafak

  

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  Short Description for The Bastard of IstanbulOne day a 19-year old and unmarried girl has an abortion. Twenty years later, Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul. Due to a mysterious family curse all the men die by age 41, so it is a house of women. But when Asya's Armenian-American cousin comes to stay, long-hidden family secrets and Turkey's turbulent past begin to emerge.
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  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Published: 24 April 2008
  • Format: Paperback 368 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780141031699 ISBN 10: 0141031697
  • Sales rank: 17,453

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• One rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I want an abortion', she announces. She is nineteen years old, and unmarried. What happens that afternoon is to change her life, and the lives of everyone around her. Twenty years later, Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul. Due to a mysterious family curse all the men die by age 41, so it is a house of women, among them her beautiful, rebellious mother, Zeliha, clairvoyant Auntie Banu and bar-brawl widow, Auntie Cevriye. But when Asya's Armenian-American cousin Armanoush comes to stay, long-hidden family secrets and Turkey's turbulent past begin to emerge.